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Behavioral freight transportation modeling has recently emerged as an approach to enhance the quality of freight and logistics-related decisions. Commercial vehicle fleet ownership and composition is one important decision a business establishment faces that has not been adequately addressed in the literature. This research investigates vehicle ownership of small/medium-sized business establishments in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) using a structural equation modeling approach. The model reveals a complementary relationship between the number of cars and trucks owned, indicating that, on average, for each owned car there is a 17% increase in the number of owned trucks. This model can be used for estimating the number of owned cars, pickups/vans, and trucks for establishments located in the GTHA according to their location, industrial sector, freight demand, and some establishment characteristics.
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Mostafa, T.S., Roorda, M.J. (2019). A Structural Equation Model of Commercial Vehicle Ownership. In: Briassoulis, H., Kavroudakis, D., Soulakellis, N. (eds) The Practice of Spatial Analysis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89806-3_10
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